Some helpful hints for beginning teachers confronting their first class are offered. Hints include encouraging student participation, providing a course overview, utilizing classroom order techniques, making and following a plan, and accumulating experience. (MF)

This experiment examines the impact of a higher-order question teaching strategy on student process (classroom behaviors) and product (achievement and attitude) variables. Results generally show some impact on student process variables but little positive impact on student product variables. (Author/JMF)

A field experiment tested whether teachers change their behavior when they receive student ratings as feedback on their own behavior and on the behavior of a fictitious ideal teacher (from the students' perspective). It was concluded that effectiveness of feedback on behavioral changes in teachers is not especially high. (Author)

Adult assistance procedures were experimentally compared for their effects upon the preschool child's tendency to persist in self-selected manipulative tasks in a free-play setting. (JMB)

It was found that teachers' own views on pupil control predicted their pupil control behavior, while organizational pressures, represented by teacher perceptions of the pupil control views of colleagues and the principal, failed to do so. (Author/IRT)

Teachers can be effective health educators by setting a good example for students. (JD)

A model of teacher decision-making, which describes how a teacher pursues a plan by means of a set of tactics, is presented. It is argued that teaching competence derives in part from the teacher's ability to generate appropriate tactics. Implications for teacher training are discussed. (RLV)

Determines the relationship of student teachers' commitment to values, attitudes, and behaviors characteristically fostered by bureaucratic organizations and their verbal classroom behavior while teaching. Findings reveal no difference in verbal classroom behavior of student teachers high and low in bureaucratic orientation, and no difference in…

This discussion of a study of 30 physical education majors involved in a course focused on helping them improve their ability to observe the teaching and coaching environments is organized around three principles of observation--analysis, planning, and positioning. (JMF)

Examines the problem of sex discrimination and sex-role stereotyping with respect to instruction in undergraduate science laboratory classes. Deals specifically with the behavior of instructors as they interact with students during laboratory sessions. A significant difference in male and female teacher behavior was found in three basic areas.…

The ultimate goal of the Schools Without Failure training program is to produce changes in teacher behaviors and attitudes which will affect pupils in positive ways. A major aim of the study was to determine if expected behavioral changes actually took place for teachers. (Author/RK)

Comments and suggestions are directed to art educators in colleges, art schools, and universities. Evaluates art teachers and their teaching methods, specifically the rhetorical versus the dialogue approach to teaching art. (Author/RK)

Firing, censorship, sexism--understand the contracts and laws that affect you. (Editor)

A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)